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https://www.rochester.edu/adv/alumni-news-media/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/vargas_featured_image_600x315.jpg600315Tony Vargas experienced firsthand the tragedy of the pandemic last spring, as it ravaged the New York City region. His parents, immigrants from Peru, continued to work their jobs, as they had for decades.